Health Care
Commentary
Ohio To Destroy Access to Individual Health Insurance?
This will attract only the sickest of the sick to apply for individual coverage – after they’ve already been diagnosed. Remarkably, the bill also has the positive reform of allowing (requiring?) employers which do not offer coverage to use IRS Section 125 to permit their employees to use pre-tax dollars ...
Commentary
The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
On NRO today, Tevi Troy and I suggest a Republican alternative — one that would lower premiums, bend the cost-curve down, reduce the number of uninsured by half, and still be deficit-neutral (without having to cut doctors’ fees to make that deficit-neutral claim). Our proposal wouldn’t raise taxes, would divert ...
Commentary
Checking the ObamaCare Math
The health care debate has largely been a battle of numbers, and the most widely cited one — 46 million uninsured — isn’t even accurate. According to the census, the real number [1] of uninsured Americans is 28 million: 46 million, minus nine million non-citizens, minus nine million people on ...
Commentary
Dems’ health reforms attack taxpayer wallets
While House Democratic leaders have gloated over their recent approval of a 1,990-page health reform proposal that would cost in excess of $1 trillion, the American people may be less enthused with the results. Congress should be working to make health care more affordable — not more expensive — for ...
Climate Change
Deflating Copenhagen
There must be something really wrong, I thought. Henny-Penny, founder and recording secretary of The Holy Order of The Sky is Falling, never calls at night and it was now 10 p.m. “It’s a calamity,” She squawked. “They’ve decided not to pass a climate change treaty at Copenhagen next month. ...
Commentary
My Health Care Doesn’t Need “Reform,” Thanks!
I got a call yesterday, in the middle of a really crazy day. As you’ll read in my book, my friends all know not to call me on my deadline days, so I’m always surprised when my phone rings on a Monday or a Tuesday. Well, this was a pleasant ...
Commentary
Americans Like Obamacare About as Much as Hillarycare
The number of respondents whose “impression” of President Obama is not only unfavorable but strongly so has tripled since January 16 (from 9 to 27 percent). By a margin of almost two-to-one (37 percent to 19 percent), respondents think that the quality of their health care would get worse, rather ...
Commentary
‘Reform’ at your expense
New York Post, November 17, 2009 The health-reform bill that the Senate will soon debate may differ markedly from the one written by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that passed the House — but both would raise the cost of health care for ordinary Americans. Such an approach is at odds with ...
Health Care
Dispelling Health-Care Myths
Inundated with medical terminology and ill equipped to navigate the options available, most people probably could use a little health-care-system guidance. With extensive experience in the field and an at-times controversial outlook, Pipes brings her knowledge to the public, breaking down the myths about health care and getting straight to ...
Commentary
Bending the Cost-Curve and the Truth
In July, the Washington Post wrote, “From the start, President Obama has been firm. . . . He told us flatly that he won’t accept a bill that doesn’t ‘bend the curve’ on rising health-care costs.” Furthermore, “Any reform, he has said, must be ‘deficit-neutral.’” Just over three months later, ...
Ohio To Destroy Access to Individual Health Insurance?
This will attract only the sickest of the sick to apply for individual coverage – after they’ve already been diagnosed. Remarkably, the bill also has the positive reform of allowing (requiring?) employers which do not offer coverage to use IRS Section 125 to permit their employees to use pre-tax dollars ...
The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
On NRO today, Tevi Troy and I suggest a Republican alternative — one that would lower premiums, bend the cost-curve down, reduce the number of uninsured by half, and still be deficit-neutral (without having to cut doctors’ fees to make that deficit-neutral claim). Our proposal wouldn’t raise taxes, would divert ...
Checking the ObamaCare Math
The health care debate has largely been a battle of numbers, and the most widely cited one — 46 million uninsured — isn’t even accurate. According to the census, the real number [1] of uninsured Americans is 28 million: 46 million, minus nine million non-citizens, minus nine million people on ...
Dems’ health reforms attack taxpayer wallets
While House Democratic leaders have gloated over their recent approval of a 1,990-page health reform proposal that would cost in excess of $1 trillion, the American people may be less enthused with the results. Congress should be working to make health care more affordable — not more expensive — for ...
Deflating Copenhagen
There must be something really wrong, I thought. Henny-Penny, founder and recording secretary of The Holy Order of The Sky is Falling, never calls at night and it was now 10 p.m. “It’s a calamity,” She squawked. “They’ve decided not to pass a climate change treaty at Copenhagen next month. ...
My Health Care Doesn’t Need “Reform,” Thanks!
I got a call yesterday, in the middle of a really crazy day. As you’ll read in my book, my friends all know not to call me on my deadline days, so I’m always surprised when my phone rings on a Monday or a Tuesday. Well, this was a pleasant ...
Americans Like Obamacare About as Much as Hillarycare
The number of respondents whose “impression” of President Obama is not only unfavorable but strongly so has tripled since January 16 (from 9 to 27 percent). By a margin of almost two-to-one (37 percent to 19 percent), respondents think that the quality of their health care would get worse, rather ...
‘Reform’ at your expense
New York Post, November 17, 2009 The health-reform bill that the Senate will soon debate may differ markedly from the one written by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that passed the House — but both would raise the cost of health care for ordinary Americans. Such an approach is at odds with ...
Dispelling Health-Care Myths
Inundated with medical terminology and ill equipped to navigate the options available, most people probably could use a little health-care-system guidance. With extensive experience in the field and an at-times controversial outlook, Pipes brings her knowledge to the public, breaking down the myths about health care and getting straight to ...
Bending the Cost-Curve and the Truth
In July, the Washington Post wrote, “From the start, President Obama has been firm. . . . He told us flatly that he won’t accept a bill that doesn’t ‘bend the curve’ on rising health-care costs.” Furthermore, “Any reform, he has said, must be ‘deficit-neutral.’” Just over three months later, ...
